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Manuel Alvarez Cuenca

Manuel Alvarez Cuenca

President and professor
Ryerson University
Canada

Biography

Twenty five years of industrial experience in Wastewater Treatment (ECOTECHNOS INC.), Energy Transformation, Liquid and Solid Fuels (ESSO); coal combustion and environmental pollution (ONTARIO HYDRO); pressurised fluid bed combustion (ENDESA). Twenty-two years of experience in the development of technologies for water/wastewater treatment including fixed film bioreactors; nitrification-denitrification in rotating biological contactors and fluidized beds; nutrient removal (phosphorous and nitrogen) in wastewater; President of Ecotechnos Inc. (Toronto). The firm designs and manufactures advanced wastewater treatment plants for small and medium-size industries. Ecotechnos develops and manufactures compact, modular fixed film technologies for the treatment of wastewater from food processing industries, subdivisions, tourist resorts, shopping centres and in general for the replacement or upgrading of obsolete facilities like septic tanks, ponds and conventional activated sludge facilities.Extensive experience in the design, and execution of technology development programs: technology transfer and evaluation with major energy corporations; development of strategic alliances with the private sector and Government agencies; consulting services; technical and economic feasibility studies. Chairman of numerous congresses and international conferences and author of over fifty technical papers and international presentations. Co-author and Co-editor of the book “Pressurized Fluid Bed Combustion”, Chapman & Hall (1995). Author of five patents (One pending) on bioreactors applied to the removal of BOD and nutrients from wastewater. Twenty four years of research and academic experience as university professor in Canada, Spain and Iberoamerica: Ryerson University, U. of Western Ontario, U of Waterloo, U. of Guelph, U of Windsor (Canada); U.Politécnica de Madrid ( Spain),), U de Cartagena (Colombia), Corporacion Universitaria de la Costa(Colombia ), Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Colombia).

Research Interest

Wastewater Treatment (ECOTECHNOS INC.), Energy Transformation, Liquid and Solid Fuels (ESSO); coal combustion and environmental pollution (ONTARIO HYDRO); pressurised fluid bed combustion,technology transfer and evaluation with major energy corporationscombustion,technology transfer and evaluation with major energy corporations